Bug#633786: libdrm-nouveau1a: Doesn't Depends on a sufficiently recent version of libdrm2

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

tags 633786 - sid
thanks

On 2011-07-13 19:11 +0200, xsdg wrote:

> Package: libdrm-nouveau1a
> Version: 2.4.26-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid
>
>
> I installed nouveau for the first time (on a different machine) about
> a week ago, alongside a kernel upgrade.  After rebooting into the new
> kernel, X failed to start, with a message including the string:
> "undefined symbol drmGetDeviceNameFromFd"
>
> After _a couple days_ of troubleshooting, I happened to notice that I
> had libdrm2 version 2.4.13 on the machine.  I upgraded to version
> 2.4.26-1 (matching libdrm-nouveau1a version 2.4.26-1) and the problem
> was immediately resolved.

If the drm2.symbols file is to be trusted, drmGetDeviceNameFromFd was
added in 2.4.16. 

> I don't know that it should depend on libdrm2 >= 2.4.26, but I _do_
> know that >= 2.4.3 is not sufficient.

Except that libdrm-nouveau1a does not reference drmGetDeviceNameFromFd
anywhere.  The DDX driver (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau) does, however.
But for some reason this package does not depend on libdrm2 at all,
although /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so is linked against
libdrm.so.2.

Cheers,
       Sven